I hated my brothers little army men...those things ended up everywhere and they hurt when you stepped on them!

We were big fans of anything that would allow us to build. Lincoln logs, legos, etc. We had this cool toy called Riviton that was an erector set from Parker Brothers where you had these rubber rivits that stretched into holes to attach things. It was cool because you could take it all apart and build something else without wasting anything. My dad worked for Parker Brothers, so we had all the different sets and my brother and I LOVED them. Then some stupid kid shoved the rivits up his nose and choked to death...so they recalled the entire line. We begged my dad to let us keep them if we promised never to put them in our nose, but he wouldn't let us...some liablility issue due to his position at Parker Brothers. Bah.

I found this pic of an ad from 1978 for Riviton (on ebay):


We were also big fans of the 'little people' line from Fisher Price (when we were younger). Those all got recalled as well (and redsigned) because kids choked on those, too.